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Monday,
July 31, 2006
• Ravenna
farmer's business spans nation
In the early hours of the morning, when most dairy farmers are heading into the
barn to milk cows, Timothy den Dulk is often in front of a computer,
electronically trading farm commodities.
• Timothy
den Dulk profile
Timothy den Dulk
• Economics
fueling boom in factory farms
Nicolaas Tensen emigrated to the
• For
farm animals, is confined unkind?
The increasingly common practice of raising thousands of pigs, cows, turkeys or
chickens inside huge barns raises a fundamental question: Are those living
conditions good for the animals?
• The
CAFO effect on property values: There goes the neighborhood
Factory farms that house thousands of animals and produce millions of gallons
of manure can be devastating to surrounding property values, according to several
studies
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Anne Woiwode, State Director
517-484-2372 fax 517-484-3108
If the Green Revolution is a bloody pulp today, it is not
just because the environmental movement mugged itself. It is because the
corporate, political, and religious right ganged up on it in the back alleys of
power.
Bill Moyers, before the Society of Environmental
Journalists, 10/1/05